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May 2029

20 Sunday
  redPentecost Sunday
Separate Vigil Mass texts in RM with separate set of readings. An elongated Vigil Liturgy of the Word is one option.
Mass of Pentecost; Gloria, Sequence, Creed, Preface of Pentecost, special Communicantes in Eucharistic Prayer I, Double alleluia at the dismissal.
Yr A [63] Acts 2:1-11; Ps 104:1+24, 29b-30, 31+34; 1 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13; John 20:19-23.
Hours of the Solemnity. Te Deum. At Evening Prayer II, double alleluia at dismissal
After Evening Prayer, the Paschal Candle is extinguished, and moved to the Baptistery, where it is kept in a place of honor so that the candles of the newly baptised may be lit from it.
The weeks of the year resume with Week 7.
Week 3 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:76th anniversary of the death of P. Emil Schmitz (82) d. 1953 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:61st anniversary of the death of P. Kenneth Tasman (78) d. 1968 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Jubilee:Tin Jubilee of S. Anold Tarisai ZINDONDA who celebrates 10 years in the Society today.
Jubilee:Tin Jubilee of S. Masuzyo Mwango JUMBE who celebrates 10 years in the Society today.

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1521Ignatius was seriously wounded at Pamplona, Spain, while defending its fortress against the French.
1521St. Ignatius was seriously wounded while defending the Castle of Pamplona against the French.
1622The death of Pedro Paez, S.J., a Spanish missionary to Ethiopia, the second apostle of Ethiopia. He reached Ethiopia in 1603 after 15 years of journey because en route he was enslaved by Turkish pirates for 7 years. He was the first European to see the source of the blue Nile, he wrote a history of Ethiopia and learned several languages.
1823Saint Louis University (St. Louis College) is founded.
1961In a letter dated 20 May, Fr. Swain, Vicar-General formally approved the Institute of Jesuit Sources. The plan was launched unofficially the previous year when Fr. Janssens gave Fr. Ganss permission to start work on an English version of the Constitutions.
1968J. Franklin (Buck) Ewing, S.J. dies anthropologist, missiologist.
1973The Society of Jesus allowed in Switzerland after a Referendum.
1974Jean Cardinal Danielou, SJ, dies in Paris, engaged in ministry.
2020Death of Adolfo Nicolas in Tokyo.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2029

Dominical Letter  g
Golden Number  16
Epact  xiv
Solar Cycle 22
Letter of the Martyrology P
Roman Year of Indiction 7
Julian Period Year 6742
Years since the confirmation of the Society 489
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  473
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 8
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 1 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    8 April